Kevin West

Former Michigan state Representative Matthew McNeely, a native Georgian and among the first blacks elected to a leadership position in the House, has died. He was 82.

A district judge will consider a request by two former friends of JonBenet Ramsey's family for access to some of the police files kept in the investigation into the girl's 1996 slaying.

A special prosecutor told the governor Friday he found no evidence to support charges that Attorney General Thurbert Baker destroyed parole board records or took money for helping a prisoner.

Charles Taylor, a veteran educator and businessman, has been named as the new president of Morris Brown College.

The former chief financial officer of a company that made police and firefighters' uniforms for several metro Atlanta governments has been accused of scheming to defraud Citizens Trust Bank out of $770,000.

The Georgia High School Association has approved a 14-year-old's prosthetic swim fin which was banned from a metro Atlanta swimming league this summer.

Patches of an aquatic weed native to South America and Asia has been found in 50-mile stretches along both sides of Lake Walter F. George on the Alabama-Georgia line.

Authorities in Paulding County are investigating the death of a three-year-old who was struck and killed by a car.

Authorities have dropped charges against the former boyfriend of a Forest Park woman based on his cell phone records.

The list of the top 50 national universities ranks Emory University in Atlanta at 18th place, as it has been for the past four years. It is tied with Notre Dame. Georgia Tech is at 38th place.